Taoism, Shintoism, and the ethics of technology: an ecocritical review of Howl's Moving Castle

Building on the continuing tropes that director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli often reflect upon in the cores of their feature films, in Howl’s Moving Castle , the themes of war, industrialisation, and metamorphosis compete, contrast, and comment upon notions of peace, nature and self-understanding...